Categoria: Cantus Gregorianus

Tra le sollecitudini

MOTU PROPRIO TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI SS.MI D. N. PII PP. X DE MUSICA SACRA (in festo S. Cæciliae V. et M., X Kalendas Decembris)

MOTU PROPRIO TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF PIUS X ON SACRED MUSIC (November 22, 1903)

MOTU PROPRIO TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI DEL SOMMO PONTEFICE PIO X SULLA MUSICA SACRA (22 novembre 1903)

MOTU PROPRIO TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI DEL SUMO PONTÍFICE PÍO X SOBRE LA MÚSICA SAGRADA (22 noviembre 1903)

MOTU PROPRIO TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI DO SUMO PONTÍFICE PIO X SOBRE A MÚSICA SACRA (22 novembro 1903)

MOTU PROPRIO TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI VON PAPST PIUS X. ÜBER DIE RESTAURATION DER KIRCHENMUSIK (22. November 1903)

MOTU PROPRIO TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI DE SA SAINTETÉ LE PAPE PIE X SUR LA RESTAURATION DE LA MUSIQUE SACRÉE (22 novembre 1903)

Why chant will never die, but will rise again as Church recovers sacredness of her worship

This is what I think about the Latin and the chant: they are masterpieces, which offer us an irreplaceable monastic and Christian experience. They have a force, an energy, a depth without equal. All the proposed English offices are very much impoverished in comparison — besides, it is not at all impossible to make such things [Latin and chant] understood and appreciated.

(Thomas Merton, Letter to Dom Ignace Gillet)

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